There’s an old saying that goes, ‘the House always wins‘. And this isn’t far from the truth, because lets face it, the house does win more often than not. How else do you think those massive structures and all the staff running around inside them are financed? So when we hear about a casino...
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Archive for August, 2011
High Rollers beat the casino at Greenbrier
District of Columbia sparks online gambling debate
The District of Columbia is continuing it’s push toward legalized online casino games for D.C. residents in the face of considerable political headwinds. Apparently the D.C. Lottery is already looking to staff the operation running advertisements for various positions including a Bingo Chat Moderator so from their perspective it’s all systems go. The headwinds...
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Mega Fortune by name Mega Fortune by nature
This is the first (and probably the last) post I’ll ever do here on a game of slots. Don’t like them. Never have. Can’t understand why people play them. Call them what you want, slots, slot machines, one-armed bandits, pokies…they’re all programmed to payout X% of all cash that is fed into them –...
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Introducing the William Hill Scottish Cup
For the next three seasons the Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the Scottish Cup, will become the William Hill Scottish Cup. Already the official betting partner of the Sottish Premier League, Hill’s have decided to deepen their relationship with Scottish football with this new three-season title sponsorship deal. The company’s...
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Hanna – Our live dealer of the week
Here’s a couple of things about Hanna that you won’t find on her casino bio: she’s an action girl when it come to hobbies – ice hockey and beach volleyball (must be cold in Latvia??) are a couple of her favourites; she’s also an action girl when it comes to choice of movie genres –...
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Blackjack: blonde bad, brunette good
That was the tale of this afternoon’s blackjack adventure. My William Hill cash balance read $214, it was blowing a gale outside (far to windy to ski!) and the lodge fireplace was roaring. What better time to while away the afternoon with a game of live blackjack? My first dealer was Glorija. Appropriate, because...
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Who’s winning a trip to the Rugby World Cup
Paddy Power have been running an absolute cracker promotion in their live casino the last few days. It’s a casino race with points earned for all Euro/Pounds staked on live blackjack and roulette…nothing special about this as most of the bigger live casinos are running similar races regularly now. But this race has a...
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Playing live roulette, blackjack, baccarat on your ipad
Last month we did a post on live casino games you could play on your iPad. The upshot of that post was that the list of casinos and games you could play on iPad was sadly very short, owing to a pretty simple equation: iPad = No (Adobe) Flash Player = No live casino...
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Arsenal FC partner with Betsson
Partnerships between Premier League football clubs and online casinos seem to be coming thick and fast at the moment. The latest tie-up is between Arsenal FC and Betsson who have together launched Gunners Gaming – an Arsenal branded online gambling site powered by Betsson. While most of Betsson’s casino games (and of course the...
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Elza – Our live dealer of the week
With the sad news that bet365′s casino would no longer be available to Australians from this Monday, this was likely to be the last time I could play any of their live casino games. I played my last few rounds of roulette; played a couple of spins of their recently added VIP roulette game;...
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